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De Jong, Mayke

 
9781107014312: Epitaph for an Era: Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World
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ISBN 10 : 110701431X ISBN 13 : 9781107014312
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Wala, abbot of Corbie, played a major role in the rebellions against Emperor Louis the Pious, especially in 830, for which he was exiled. Radbert defended his beloved abbot, known to his monks as Arsenius, against accusations of infidelity in an 'epitaph' (funeral oration), composed as a two-book conversation between himself and other monks of Corbie. Whereas the restrained first book of Radbert's Epitaphium Arsenii was written not long after Wala's death in 836, the polemical second book was added some twenty years later. This outspoken sequel covers the early 830s, yet it mostly addresses the political issues of the 850s, as well as Radbert's personal predicament. In Epitaph for an Era, an absorbing study of this fascinating text, Mayke de Jong examines the context of the Epitaphium's two books, the use of hindsight as a rhetorical strategy, and the articulation of notions of the public good in the mid-ninth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mayke de Jong taught Medieval History at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands from 1987 until her retirement in 2016. She has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Since 1999, she has been a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Publishing widely on the interface between religion and politics in the early Middle Ages, her works include In Samuel's Image (1995), Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages, edited with Frans Theuws and Carine van Rhijn (2001) and The Penitential State (Cambridge, 2009).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
110701431X
ISBN 13 
9781107014312
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
284
Coordonnées du fabricant
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